Data Visualization Masterclass

Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. Her evaluation interests include both controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field.

She co-chaired EuroVis in 2010 and 2009, and InfoVis in 2004 and 2003. She currently serves as chair of the VisWeek Executive Committee and a member of the InfoVis Steering Committee. She was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee, and a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) from 2004 to 2009. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and several startups.

Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim conducts research in the analysis, exploration, and visualization of mass data. He and his team develop novel techniques for visual analysis of business, customer, finance, demoscopic, and network data motivated by applications in customer relationship management (CRM), telecommunications, the financial market and network security. He focuses on techniques for interactive mass data analysis applied on very large multidimensional and geographic data sets.

Seán O’Donoghue is an Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader in Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney.

He is also Group Leader and Senior Faculty Member at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD in biophysics from the University of Sydney, Australia. Much of his career was spent in Heidelberg, Germany, where he worked in the Structural and Computational Biology programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and also at Lion Bioscience AG - then the world's largest bioinformatics company - where he was Director of Scientific Visualization.

His work has received many awards, including the Elsevier Grand Challenge (first prize), the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research (finalist, 2015), the NSW Emerging Creative Talent Award (finalist, 2015), and the NSW iAward for Research and Development (first prize, 2015). His contributions have been recognised with a C. J. Martin Fellowship from the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, an Achievement Award from Lion Bioscience AG, and by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Christopher Hammang is a Biomedical Animator working at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Christopher’s animations convey complex cell biology concepts with engaging and easy to understand visuals.

His work has been featured on Australian national broadcast (ABC Catalyst) and exhibited at the University of New South Wales galleries Body Image exhibit. He has received international recognition, winning first prize at the 2013 VIZBI “Art and Biology” contest and achieving a top ten position in the Science Journal’s international visualisation contest “The Vizzies”.

Christopher has produced content for many internationally recognised organisations including CSIRO, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Nature Biotechnology Journal.

Julian Heinrich is a postdoctoral fellow in the Applied Bioinformatics Group at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and a graduate student at the Graduate School Simulation Technology (GS SimTech). 

Julian's research interests are the development and evaluation of visual analytics and information visualization methods with applications in the life sciences. He was involved in the visualization and analysis of microarray data, genome-wide association studies, signal transduction networks, and protein structures.

Christian Stolte is currently an UI & Visualization Designer at the New York Genome Center. He is also the art director and designer for VizbiPlus, an initiative aimed at educating and inspiring the general public about cutting edge biomedical research.

He designs and programs user interfaces for data exploration and analysis in the life sciences. Christian has more than twenty years of experience as an art director and designer for the web, interactive media, and print, working for design firms, medical advertising, software, and publishing companies, as well as in his own business. He began his career in Germany, then moved to the USA, where he first became involved in science at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, building data analysis and visualization tools.